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Life in Victorian Britain

Historian Emma Griffin. (Photographed by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)
Victorian

Books interview with Emma Griffin: “Looking at family life reveals a dark side to Victorian economic progress”

Historian and author Emma Griffin (Photo by Fran Monks)
Victorian

Living on the edge in Victorian Britain

Victorian family. (Photo by Sean Sexton-Getty images)
Victorian

The Victorians: everything you wanted to know

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Victorian

7 podcasts about Queen Victoria and the Victorians to listen to right now

Irish people starving during the Potato Famine
Victorian

The Corn Laws crisis

A portrait of Florence Nightingale
Victorian

Nursing by numbers: how Florence Nightingale campaigned for better conditions

A woman in riding gear breaks out in a grin in the c1860s.
Victorian

Smiling Victorians: why it’s a myth that our ancestors didn’t smile for pictures

Policemen from Scotland Yard patrolling at night
Victorian

Real-life Sherlocks: the detectives of Scotland Yard and their curious cases

Midwives and babies in the sun
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Midwifery and childbirth: a historical A–Z guide

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Victorian

Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were ‘happy’

An illustration from 1883 shows the phrenology chart of the skull
Victorian

The Victorian phrenology craze

Hallie Rubenhold. (Photo by Fran Monks)
Victorian

The women killed by Jack the Ripper

Queen Victoria with her daughter Princess Beatrice at Balmoral Castle. Dogs seem to have been Victoria's favourite animal, writes Richard Sugg. (De Agostini Picture Library)
Victorian

Queen Victoria’s pets and animals

Oxtail stew. (© CICO Books 2017)
Victorian

Top 5 Dickensian recipes

An illustration of Rugby school
Georgian

The Library Schools of hard knocks: Georgian and Victorian public schools

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